OAKLAND, Calif. — Lawrence Butler is used to change. A constant in the baseball world, never really knowing what city you are or what day of the week it is, legitimately comes with the territory. Unfortunately, yet expectedly, the Oakland Athletics faithful have watched another shuffle in and out of town — not because of...
The trust Clark Atlanta University transfer quarterback David Wright III has built with first-year head coach Teddy Keaton dates back to their time at Allen University, where last year they led the football team to its best record since the program was reinstated in 2018. Now the duo has propelled Clark Atlanta to its best...
Mira Murati, the chief technology officer, and two others are leaving as leaders including Sam Altman work to transform the start-up.
Almost a third of 171 posts last week from the X owner were false, misleading or missing vital context.
Enlarge / There’s been a lot of AI news this week, and covering it sometimes feels like running through a hall full of danging CRTs, just like this Getty Images illustration. (credit: Grandfailure via Getty Images) It’s been a wildly busy week in AI news thanks to OpenAI, including a controversial blog post from CEO...
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees. Meta disclosed the lapse in early 2019. The company said that apps for connecting to various Meta-owned social networks had logged user passwords in plaintext...
Enlarge / A screen capture of AJ Smith doing his Eleanor Rigby duet with OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode through the ChatGPT app. (credit: AJ Smith / Getty Images) OpenAI’s new Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) of its ChatGPT AI assistant rolled out to subscribers on Tuesday, and people are already finding novel ways to use it,...
Enlarge / An updated onboarding screen for Recall, with clearly visible buttons for opting in or out; Microsoft says Recall will be opt-in by default and can even be removed from PCs entirely. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is having another whack at its controversial Recall feature for Copilot+ Windows PCs, after the original version crashed and...
Enlarge / Dr. John Timmer, Jeff Ball, Joanna Wong, and Lee Hutchinson discussing infrastructure and the environment. (credit: Kimberly White/Getty Images) Last week, Ars Technica Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher and I made the westerly trek to sunny San Jose, California, to kick off an event titled “Beyond the Buzz: An Infrastructure Future with GenAI and What...
“It’s just like I gotta move right … The rap game ain’t nothing but the streets. What’s in the rap game? Supposed to be rappers, supposed to be street n—. In the streets, I ain’t never trust nobody … I know I got people that don’t like me. Plenty of ’em. This ain’t just started....